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We’ve all learned that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, and that’s certainly the case with the Holiday Gingerbread House created by the young patients in the Children’s Cancer Hospital at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

The cooperation, concentration, determination and friendship shown by the children as they worked on this project resulted in a creative piece of sugar and spice architecture that’s been transformed into a greeting card, ornament and cookie jar for the Children’s Art Project. 

The sale of products such as these results in funding for many programs at MD Anderson. Summer camps, college scholarships, special trips and parties, the in-hospital school, the Child Life program and more all benefit from allocations made by the Children’s Art Project.

Family-centered care in the Children’s Cancer Hospital allows young patients and their families to have input into the way the hospital runs — and the whole patient, as well as the whole family, is the focus of treatment through the many psychosocial programs funded by CAP. For more than 35 years, the project has given millions of dollars back to help pediatric cancer patients. The CAP designers and the Children’s Art Project work to help make life better for children with cancer.

Your interest and support are always appreciated. Please contact me if I can help you with story ideas, interviews or photographs.

William Fitzgerald
Communications Assistant, External Communications
713-792-9518; wbfitzgerald@mdanderson.org